May 2022 Update

Published on 4 June 2022.

This is what I’ve been up to in May 2022:

• I rediscovered James Shore through his Agile Book Club: Evolutionary Design (with Kent Beck). I had stumbled upon his TDD Lunch & Learn series before, and the book club made me revisit some of his work. This time I also bought his book The Art of Agile Development which reignited my interest for agile methods (something that has diminished more and more since I first got into it).

• I read Dream Deploys: Atomic, Zero-Downtime Deployments and got inspired to try that approach. I also started working on a blog post on my own to explore the topic.

• I continued working on RLCI and worked on connecting the different pieces. However, after getting inspired by agile methods again and learning that continuous integration is not what I thought it was (thanks for the inspiration James!), I will have to rethink the project. I think I will start over from scratch and develop it with a slightly new approach.

• I published another four programming videos on my Youtube channel:

  • Connecting all the pieces in RLCI.
  • Researching zero downtime deployments.
  • Getting back to the roots of TDD.
  • Practicing TDD and testing without mocks.